Elegies

Friedrich Hölderlin' Elegies are composed like the elegiesof ancient Greece in elegiac couplets where an hexa -meter is followed by a pentameter.ey were often revised by the poet. e versions presented here are the last ones more rarely publishedand translated. eir main themes are one's return to the homeland(e Wanderer Homecoming Stuttgart) to lost love(Menon's Lament for Diotima) to the spirit of Greece priorto the disenchantment of the world (Bread and Wine) andthe welcome of Nature (e Walk in the Country).In the hope of giving an idea of the music they producethe present English translations strive to reproduce theirmetrics.